By: Jeffrey Weiss | It looks like Texas’ largest electric utility may be about to get a new owner. And the name is not really a shocker. Florida-based NextEra has been pursuing Oncor for several years. This would mean the Dallas-based

By: City News Service | The manager of the state’s power grid extended a statewide Flex Alert though today, urging residents to conserve energy in response to high temperatures, power plant outages and reductions in transmission-line capacity. The alert by

By: Darren Fishell | When homeowners with rooftop solar panels generate more electricity than they need, they can sell that excess power back to the utility company. That has made installing solar power affordable for many Mainers. But other customers

By: Springfield Business Journal | A heat wave and thunderstorms Monday caused wholesale electricity prices in New York City to spike 1,000 percent. The per-megawatt-hour price rose from under $50 to more than $1,042, according to Bloomberg Business. The sharp

By: Jim Moore | Short-Term Price Benchmark Trends The ERC average national benchmark price for retail electricity dropped dramatically last week by more than one percent (1.09%) to $0.0747 per kilowatt hour. The largest price decline was again in Texas

By: Laura Nightengale | Rising temps and utility rates have some consumers in central Illinois feeling the heat during the time of year when electricity use is as its peak. Consumers have taken to social media, most notably to Ameren